Hi Catherine and Jeri Marie Laurie gave me the information re the sale. Marie had a Christmas Card from Roger, Susan's husband with the details of the auction in case she wanted to view it online. Marie spent Christmas with us, so while she was here, I searched Bonham's under the sale date Roger gave and then 'searched within' for 'lace'. I came up with 5 pages of lace items: lot numbers are between 309-355, some of which Marie recognised from her days of classes at the School. Marie particularly remembered the Hollie Point which Susan brought out for her to study while she was learning Hollie Point as a private lesson. Marie gives Susan credit for getting her started on lace and through Susan's encouragement Marie went on to devote her life to learning and teaching lace. I have made a tinyurl to the items I believe are from the Lace School, part of Susan's personal Collection. http://tinyurl.com/lkbce8u
Roger supplied these details but I cannot get any results from these : FUR140120X 21727 Marie is not on arachne but I forwarded Jeri's email and she is trying to ring Roger to get more information but he seems to be away at present. I will let you know if we get further clarification. Best regards Annette, Wollongong Australia -----Original Message----- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Catherine Barley Sent: Friday, 27 December 2013 8:18 PM To: jeria...@aol.com; lace@arachne.com Cc: ameld...@ozemail.com.au Subject: Re: [lace] Bonham's lace auction 21st January 2014 ----- Original Message ----- From: <jeria...@aol.com> I have a 95-page 1980 lace exhibit book called "Catalogue of Antique Lace > from Dr. A. I. Spriggs' Collection at The English Lace School > (Tiverton)", copyrighted by Mrs. S. M. Cox. Does anyone know if > Spriggs was related to Mrs. Cox? Are the laces in the January 2014 > auction from his collection? > > Also, I found a 1 1/2-page May 1980 article Mrs. Cox wrote for > International Old Lacers in the U.S.. This was about 18 months after > The English Lace School was opened in Tiverton. It was quite a leap > of faith to start, because there was nothing like it in the U.K. at > the time, and there were very few lace teachers. Good morning Jeri I have been unable to find the lace items for auction from the late Susan Cox effects, so am unable to identify whether or not some are from his collection. However, I did teach for many years at The English Lace School both at Tiverton and Rockbeare where at that time the Dr Sprigs collection was on permanent loan to the School, and every evening after dinner Susan would bring out a selection of items from his collection, which we were all able to view at close hand - what a treat that was! I believe it was when the school closed that the complete collection then transferred to the museum at Exeter. I have a letter from Dr Spriggs giving me permission to photograph and use any of the lace from his collection for my book that I was then writing 'Needlelace Designs and Techniques Classic & Contemporary and several examples from the collection are featured in this book. Heather Toomer and myself stayed at Cynthia Voysey's home and Heather Toomer was in charge of the lace collections at that time. The three of us spent a wonderful day together at the museum, discussing, photographing and drooling over the beautiful laces in the Dr Spriggs collection. If you are able to view the lace on the auction site and have a copy of my book, you will possibly be able to identify and compare the laces. However, somehow I doubt that any of the lace would be included in the auction as it did not belong to Susan Cox but was on permanent loan and was then tranferred to the museum at Exeter when the school closed. To the best of my knowledge, Dr Spriggs was not related to Susan Cox, but I don't know for certain. Annette, I couldn't access the lace collection with the link you sent, neither have I been able to find it through 'Google' Happy New Year to all and I hope you have been able to make a little time to yourselves to sit and make your lace, be it bobbin, needle,crochet, tatting etc. Catherine Barley UK Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
